thunderbird command not found

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

thunderbird: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: thunderbird: command not found

Solutions to thunderbird: command not found

How To Fix thunderbird: command not found in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux / Raspbian

In Ubuntu thunderbird is provided by thunderbird package.

thunderbird is:

Thunderbird is a full-featured email, RSS and newsgroup client that makes emailing safer, faster and easier than ever before. It supports different mail accounts (POP, IMAP, Gmail), has a simple mail account setup wizard, one- click address book, tabbed interface, an integrated learning spam filter, advanced search and indexing capabilities, and offers easy organization of mails with tagging and virtual folders. It also features unrivalled extensibility.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install thunderbird

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install thunderbird.

sudo apt -y install thunderbird

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install thunderbird

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to fix thunderbird command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.